>>5059986
>Organization

The only way we're going to get out of this is by getting organized.

>>5059986
>Organization

>>5059986>>5059994
Support. Forming squads and a temp power structure?

>>5059986
It doesn't matter how organized we are if we are completely out of food by next week. Food is most important, and then either shelter or organization.
>Food

>>5059986
>>Organization

>>5060006
This.

>>5059994
>>5060000
>>5060002
>>5060010

A group of unorganized Kobolds may as well be worthless. They'll bumble about inefficiently, probably wandering off and dying in stupid ways. Unlike you of course, you're much better than the others. There's no way you can survive like this. The leader of this little band will obviously have to be you, none of the others could handle such a lofty and qualification heavy position. Unfortunately the others likely wont see eye to eye. You can already see the cliques that have formed over the journey where some of the kobolds have tended to gravitate towards a select few for their desirable traits. Those looks they give others are definitely those of ambition...

They definitely have some merits... But none of them hold a candle to you! So, how to establish yourself as top bold? Each approach will paint how the others view you.

>Attempt to gain leadership through reasoning and persuasion
>Strong arm your way into being the alpha
>Use underhanded tactics to undermine the others
>Try and... Compromise for a council
>Write-in

>>5060014
>Strong arm your way into being the alpha
Snirt is number one!

>>5060014
>Attempt to gain leadership through reasoning and persuasion

Realistically, we should probably compromise or use underhanded methods but meh - lets go for idealistic leadership selection method...

>>5060014
>>Strong arm your way into being the alpha
We are dragon blood.

>>5060014
>Attempt to gain leadership through reasoning and persuasion

>>5060014
>>Strong arm your way into being the alpha

>>5060014
>Try and... Compromise for a council

>>5060014
>Strong arm your way into being the alpha

>>5060020
>Strong arm your way into being the alpha

>>5060020
>>5060022
>>5060061
>>5060077
>>5060079

The only thing these dimwits will understand is force! You boldly step forward to announce your claim to leadership to the group. Not all take kindly to this, some stepping forward and sneering at you. Most assume that kobolds are cowardly creatures, and when alone this is pretty true. It's pretty reasonable when you think about it, fearing for your life and all. But when in groups or facing their own kind? They can be extremely scrappy and aggressive. You're no exception, draconic ancestry is in your blood after all!

Still, there's about four others who are bold enough for this race it seems. The others all sheepishly form a ring hackling at the tension in the air. While you're confident in yourself, well... The others aren't too shrimpy either.

Test your might. Roll 4d20 best of 3 to see how strong you are

>Immediately sucker punch the nearest one
>Stay back and try to avoid being in the center
>GET MAD, GO CRAZY
>Pull a knife and escalate things

Rolled 5, 17, 11, 18 = 51 (4d20)

>>5060083
>Immediately sucker punch the nearest one

STRIKE FIRST, STRIKE HARD, NO MERCY! KOBOLD KAI!

Rolled 10, 5, 16, 20 = 51 (4d20)

>>5060083
>Immediately sucker punch the nearest one

Rolled 19, 3, 7, 5 = 34 (4d20)

>>5060083
>GET MAD, GO CRAZY

Rolled 2, 11, 4, 18 = 35 (4d20)

>>5060083
>GET MAD, GO CRAZY
JACKPOT

Rolled 14, 4, 10, 2 = 30 (4d20)

>>5060083
>Stay back and try to avoid being in the center
Probably too late buy let's at least try to fight a little smart

>>5060083
>Pull a knife and escalate things

>>5060083
>>Immediately sucker punch the nearest one
Worldstar!!

>>5060083
>Immediately sucker punch the nearest one
Lets goo

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>>5060085
>>5060103
>>5060344
>>5060110
>>5060358


10,5,16,20

He who dares wins. "It seems we're at an impasse here." You begin, stepping forward. "How about we sit down and dis-" Immediately you interrupt yourself, driving your fist into the nearest bold's jaw, sending them sprawling to the dirt hissing in anger. This sets off the rest as the brawl begins. A particularly big one doesn't appreciate your presence. squaring up across from you before lunging with a punch faster than you expected. Stings, but you can manage. You respond in turn with fists of your own. You've never been particularly strong but you aren't a wimp either, but it's in the middle of the fisticuffs match when something snags your leg.

You've always hated Yirrak, and this just cements it as you're pulled back and faceplant into the muck. The other takes this opportunity and the two start whaling on you while you flail about. It turns the ground into a mess of flying mud and scales. Being dragged down like this pisses you off to no end, you're the one whos supposed to get away with pulling underhanded moves here! In the flurry you see your opportunity and take it. You bite down hard on a tail and start kicking and swinging like mad. There's screaming on all sides as you eventually wrench the two bodies off you and clamber up. In your anger you charge the first one you see, which in retrospect was the one who wasn't even hitting you and just got done dealing with the fourth contestant. He goes down easy though, probably didn't except how pissed off you were. Just one punch lays them out on the mud.

You turn back to the other turn with a derange look in your eye. You hate the cold mud and now you're absolutely coated in it. What the hell are you gonna wash it off with, cold swamp water!? This might have intimidated them or something, or maybe it was the utter fury you had when you started thrashing them. It didn't matter if they hit you because you honestly didn't even feel it you were so mad. By the time you regain some sense of consciousness you're standing over the others screaming at the sky.

The spectators cheer, obviously amused by the display. This fight seems to have done a bit of good to raise spirits. "Anyone else ready to have a go!?" You shout at them. None come forward though. They probably could beat you though, the soreness is starting to creep in now. "Then it's settled, I'm the boss, got that!? And as first order of business..."

>Minor increase in morale. CRITICAL -> AWFUL
>LEADERSHIP over the kobold clan gained. They either fear or respect you now.


>Food
>Housing
>Organization
>Surveying
>Tools
>Write-In

>>5060380
>Food

>>5060380
>Food
We hungry after all that winning.

>>5060380
>Tools
How are we gonna get food if we have no tools? Y'all trying to hunt/fish with your hands?

>>5060380
>Food
We're in a swamp, so most of what we might be hunting or fishing for is going to be small and fairly easy to trap due to the mix of land-and-water we've got.

Lots of small crustaceans, molluscs, insects, amphibians, lizards along with fish and birds. The OP mentioned that although our known tools are limited to stone knives, that we've probably got some slings in someone's possession so those'll do for hunting the birds. Everything else meanwhile it's going to come down to hand-gathering (not too much of an issue for the crustaceans, molluscs and insects - even the amphibians if we're lucky - but difficult for the fish...).

There's also the point of plants we might eat, cattails for example are a IRL swamp plant that is relatively common and somewhat edible even to humans which combined with the possibility of say mushrooms, berries or edible flowers / fruit, should provide reasonable diversity to our diet. Though we should be terrified of the possibility we might run into the local apex predators since they'll probably kill 1/3 of us before we run away or scare it off.

>>5060380
>FOood

>>5060383
>>5060397
>>5060418
>>5060420

Sort of hungry after all that fighting. The first order you issue is that of food gathering. Getting food can't be that difficult in a swamp, right? None of you have any experience in what a swamp is actually like though. This is exemplified when on of the kobolds grabs a weird sausage looking plant and bites into it. They immediately regret this when it burst out into fluff and start sputtering and hacking up the cotton-stuffs onto the ground as everyone watches. Well, that clears up one plant at least?

Vegetables don't really agree with kobolds anyways. Sometimes you can stomach fruits if they taste good, but what a kobolds stomach really needs is meat. Hopefully you can find some small animals that aren't too hard to gut and devour. You don't like the idea of vermin, but if comes down to it, you're ready to eat a rat or something. Got a bit of time till night comes looking at the sky. Hard to tell with how gloomy it looks here...

>Send out a couple of big groups to scrounge
>Let a lot of smaller groups cover a wider area
---------------------------------------------------------------
>Gathering with a cautious attitude
>Let them go at a fast pace

Either way roll 5d100 best of 3 for the results

Yeah, I trust our kobolds have enough wits to find some food, even without spear or bow.

Some basic housing would be in order after that, just enough to keep us dry from rain.

Rolled 91, 62, 42, 66, 83 = 344 (5d100)

>>5060481
>Send out a couple of big groups to scrounge
>Gathering with a cautious attitude
Safety in numbers and taking it slow, we don't know what predators could lurk in the swamps. For all we know we could be in Florida right now, so it's best if we take things slow.

Rolled 90, 60, 55, 59, 36 = 300 (5d100)

>>5060481
>>Let a lot of smaller groups cover a wider area
>>Gathering with a cautious attitude

Big groups and fast could work as well.

>>5060481
>Send out a couple of big groups to scrounge
>Gathering with a cautious attitude
If we run about, we will be hungry earlier, and a large group can comb through an area thoroughly. All this being said, we really need a place to meet back up.

Rolled 69, 29, 95, 99, 90 = 382 (5d100)

>>5060495

>>5060481
>Send out a couple of big groups to scrounge
>Gathering with a cautious attitude

>>5060481
>Send out a couple of big groups to scrounge
>Let them go at a fast pace

Rolled 87, 20, 46, 52, 94 = 299 (5d100)

>>5060481
>Let a lot of smaller groups cover a wider area
>Gathering with a cautious attitude

Rolled 41, 75, 72, 47, 11 = 246 (5d100)

>>5060481
>Send out a couple of big groups to scrounge
>Let them go at a fast pace

Get food fast. If we're overcautious, we'll gather little and rations will worsen morale and health.

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>>5060488
>>5060493
>>5060495

69,29,95,99,90

Ordering your kobolds into some decent sized squads, you order them off to gather whatever food they can. Cautiously though, this place could be dangerous, no one really knows what they're doing. Saying this, you sit down on the spot and take a break while you wait for them to come back. The perks of being a leader of course...

The first two groups come back in a few hours. They seem to have focused on searching the various ponds and water bodies in the swamp. The first group brought back dozens of frogs and toads. The whole swamp is infested with them as far the incredibly common croaking you've been hearing tells you. You once heard that frogs can be poisonous, but that was in the jungle, right? They got a lot of them though. The second group saw some things deeper in the water and were brave enough to dive in and catch has these fat eel things with legs and arms and such. They managed to sharpen a few sticks and impale them, dragging back a decent amount. pretty big things too, one can feed a bold for a whole day you reckon.

One group decided that they wanted to be berry pickers, which you're not too fond of. Probably didn't do a good job hunting and wanted to save face. They've got these big bulbous pink berries that you've never seen before. Apparently there's a lot of the things around here, though you don't know if they're edible. One of the ones with a sling did do something good though and managed to brain a wren bird with a sling. You're claiming that one for yourself though, birds are tasty...

Fourth group didn't have much luck. While walking about the swamp a giant scaled lizard nearly bit a kobold in half if another didn't pull them back in time. The creature was well hidden, floating among the reeds. It almost looked like some malformed cousin of dragons, and has just as vicious a disposition too. They come back shaken with nothing but a handful of frogs between them.

The last group comes back far too late though, and they're missing a member. According to them, they got separated at some point. By the time they found the lost bold he was just laying there on the ground, all the fluids sucked out his body like some piece of beef jerky. Just a scale hide draped over a skeleton. They say they hear some kind of loud chittering when they saw the body... Sort of terrifies you, but can't show that to anyone.

The death disturbs everyone a little, but death is a common occurrence for your kind. Night has begun to set in and it would be too dangerous to venture out now. Everyone is much happier to have something to eat. You are at least, roast poultry is great. Everyone else complains about how the meat is slimy until they figure out that they can use some of the cattails to start fires easily. Some of them are wondering if they should try the berries and have started daring each other to try them out.

>Let them eat berries
>Single out a test subject
>No berries

>[Two predator attack reports]
Giant spiders and crocodiles / alligators, lovely. We're going to struggle to defend against them - best bet I can think of being watch-bolds in high positions with throwing spears to at least provide warning / covering retreats and dissuading attacks. Does mean any housing we build is going to need to be raised or away from the water and preferably thickly walled...

>>5060614
>Single out a test subject

Also, QM, a few questions regarding our 'bolds - are they able to see in the dark or swim well? Are their claws at all effective as tools / weapons? How big are our 'bolds?

>>5060614
>Single out a test subject
Incentivize with our half-eaten wren.

>>5060614
>Single out a test subject
Designate the bravest Kobold to eat the berries.

>>5060643
>Giant spiders and crocodiles
We need to figure out how to hunt the Crocodiles for meat, and then we need to tame the spiders to use as mounts. Long term goals, I know, but I will not settle for not having spider mounts.

>>5060643
Most kobolds have decent dark vision, but they always like torchlight better. They prefer arid climates and definitely aren't proficient swimmers by any means. Claws are just about as sharp as any wild animal's though it's not exactly pleasant to use your fingernails to carve wood, and they're around waist height when compared to a human.

>>5060614
>Single out a test subject

>>5060614
>Single out a test subject
Make sure they follow these steps:
First smash a berry and rub it on a patch of skin (not scales) and wait to see if there's a reaction
Second chew a berry but don't swallow and wait to see if there's a reaction
Third eat just one berry and wait to see if there's a reaction
Fourth eat a bunch of berries and see if there's a reaction

Obviously you should stop if at any point there's a bad reaction

>>5060650
Maybe but I'd council that the spiders are probably uncontrollable - short of magic / divine aid in taming them.

>>5060651
Okay that's good news, working from that we don't need to worry too much about night-shift nor sentry duty since the dark won't be too much of a bother. Similarly, knowing they aren't good swimmers, at least natively, means we can assume that any success at catching fish was good luck - meaning we need nets, traps, rods or spears to make that sustainable.

As to the claws and stature, that at least confirms that the giant spider that took one of us down must have been either large and struck with deadly effect immediately or extremely venomous with some sort of paralytic effect given it took down that kobold without it getting a shout-out to its group or being wounded by it clawing in defence - the fact that it retreated / didn't attack after killing one of us, implies that either it had its fill or it felt intimidated - in future we should move in groups even more carefully...

Also knowing we've got little knife hands is good, because that means we don't need to worry about getting knives, axes and so on quite as immediately or critically - especially since the best we might do currently is flint. Personally, in terms of next priorities I'd say we should work on getting a supply of woven material (cattails being suited to this purpose) since it'll work for making fishing gear (traps), storage (baskets) and even shelter in combination with wood, mud or stone.

We should probably also force everyone to set the more sizable bones of their food aside for use, since bone needles and other such items will be quite useful to us in the near future. Similarly, any leftovers or scraps should be kept for use as hunting / fishing bait later or tomorrow.

Also we should start looking into treehouses soon as they'll at least protect us from the gators

>>5060660
I support this

>>5060614
>>5060660+1

You really don't like berries, but if others are eating them that means more meat for you, and less of a need to scrounge for food. So, you single out a particularly dumb looking kobold and decide to test these berries. You're smart after all, you can use... Scientific method was it called? Not like anyone can deny your orders now, you're the boss. Anyways you start the tests. First you just squish a berry on their scales. Nothing happens and they just look at you blankly. Pretty expected honestly. Next you have them chew a berry. Nothing really happens, but they say they taste kinda watery and bitter. No tongue melting or anything. After that you have them eat one and after nothing happens again after a few minutes, a handful.

They... Seem safe? They're described as just not tasting pleasant at all though, and no one really wants to eat them when they have meat available. Like two other bolds try a handful of them and confirm their preferences. Of course you were right in your hypothesis, berries suck.

We don't really have any plan for where to sleep. Everyone just has to sit around and sleep on the ground or hastily made beds of reeds. Overall it's pretty miserable, wet, and cold. A few bolds are forced to keep watch in shifts so we don't get butchered in our sleep. It's not the first time you've done this in your march through the lands so everyone understands what needs to be done. Doesn't make it anymore pleasant. Hard to sleep with all the critter noises too, so much croaking...

---------------------------------

After a fairly restless night where thankfully nothing bad happened, you discover that yes, the berries did indeed have an effect. The three kobolds that ate them are feeling miserable and groaning on the ground, but don't exactly seem like they're deathly poisoned. Really just looks like food poisoning. This is why you never eat fruits, nothing good ever comes from it. Meat will never betray you. You take a bite of your leftover wren you huddled next to in the night to affirm your beliefs. They'll probably be fine by the afternoon, and if not you'll kick them into working... Does the sky look darker today?...

>Discovered [Marsh Berries] Generally taste bitter and watery. Will probably give you the shits. Still edible in a pinch though.

DAY 2
KOBOLDS: 21/24
FOOD: Meager
MORALE: Awful

[Choose a subject to focus on]
>Food
>Housing
>Exploration
>Tools
>Write-In

>>5060688
>Housing
Past food, shelter is most important, especially in a place as shitty as this. Even getting a couple of lean-to's up would be a huge improvement, if only to sleep out of the rain.

>>5060688
>Housing
Maybe dig under a tree to make a some burrows.

>>5060688
>Housing
Foraging and hunting during the day is ideal, but sleeping on mud sucks.
Stripping trees of bark somehow?

>>5060688
>Housing

Realistically, we should build up a circle of mud/soil and gather enough branches to make a frame for a shelter, using reeds / plants we can then make bundles to cover it for rain protection and to place onto the floor to isolate us from the soil's cold and wet nature.

We could also include a fire pit with a hole in the roof for the smoke to escape - or (if we burry the firepit slightly below the floor or build up one of the walls with mud) a angled flue made of mud through one of the walls.

>>5060692
>>5060700
>>5060702
>>5060707

The thought of sleeping in the mud for another night disgusts you. Something needs to be done about the shelter situation. It's a hazard too, you don't know what else could sneak up on you out in the open. Traditionally kobolds like to burrow underground and create warrens, safe and hidden from above ground threats. It's very comforting to be surrounded by all sides by terrafirma. Even if you're lorded over by a dragon that wants to sit in a castle or something, a clan of kobolds will invariably attempt to create burrows below. You really do miss the old dragon, she was pretty nice compared to most, barely even ate any of the clan...

There's concerns here in the swamp though, the ground is incredibly soggy and moist. Even if you did dig into the earth, there's concerns that our tunnels may collapse or flooding will destroy it all. You might have to resort to other methods including above ground buildings which doesn't sit well with you.

>Sticks and reed shelters for now
>Try to make mud huts?
>Attempt to create burrows anyway!
>Write-in

>>5060777
Any trees or caves abound?
Let's look for those.

>>5060777
>Try to make mud huts?

Blessed trips mate.

>>5060777
>Sticks and reed shelters for the plebs
>Mudhut for me and my best friends/most useful bolds in the tribe
Snirt does NOT sleep on the ground!

>>5060811
Yeah, we sleep IN the ground!

>>5060777
>>Try to make mud huts?
Ideally, we'd use clay, but the situation is currently not ideal.

>>5060777
>>Sticks and reed shelters for now

Oh, how you wish you could make a burrow to rest in, away from the horrible sight of this environment. Too much risk though, what with the huge quantities of water here and all. Mud huts will have to do for now. After all are roused and prepared, the plans are set and kobolds are put to work making some huts. This is yet another field that none of you really have experience in. Sure you know that you need to set supports in the form of sticks laced into the ground to form the mud around, but the soil here is so moist that it's hard to use. The stuff just refuse to solidify half the time and it's causing problems.

It's not looking good until one of the wretching kobolds manages to get up from his slump and start instructing others. Krikyak, from what he says, used to work with ceramics and such back in the old warrens and knows quite a few tricks about masonry. Plant fibers are mixed with mud to make the mud more pliable and solid. Fire is used to help dry up mud slightly while others dig drainage ditches to leach off some of the ground water from your encampment. Much better at instructing how primitive above ground architecture is made, half the bolds don't even know how to make proper rope from reeds.

By the evening, the 24 of you have barely managed to make two relatively small huts. Large plant fronds have been placed on top in such a way to keep the rain out. Not a moment too soon as well, as the rain starts to come down in light rivulets. You're all crammed inside the much too small shelters at 12 each. Concerns are raised whether or not the buildings will hold given how moist they are, and plant fronds were hastily pasted over them in an effort to keep the water off. For now they hold.

It's still light outside. Even if it's raining, it's not too harsh. You might be able to send out some bolds to get some work done before nightfall if you want, even if it'll piss of the unlucky sods...

>Stay inside until tomorrow
>Exploration
>Food gathering
>Write-in

>>5060935
>>Stay inside until tomorrow

>>5060935
>Stay inside until tomorrow

We can work on making more of these tomorrow, assigning our best builders to do that while the rest get food. Also, QM, you say we're stacked 12 per shelter? Yet in the OP you say that there were 19 other kobolds with us and we've lost one, so it should be 9 and 10.

>>5060948
if there were any confusion about that, it must have been a mistype. The total population right now is 24 after the 1 casualty which includes you.

>>5060935
>Stay inside until tomorrow

>>5060935
>Stay inside until tomorrow

>>5060935
>>Food gathering

A light rain might be a good time to catch frogs

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>>5060942
>>5060948
>>5060951
>>5061018

Probably not the best idea to go outside now. It's not like you have anything pressing to do right now that can't wait till tomorrow. Certainly uncomfortable being pressed up against a bunch of other ornery lizards, but better than being out in the cold rain. You swallow the rest of your Wren and settle in for the long haul, trying your best to sleep in the cacophony of rain splattering against the ground and frogs croaking. Are there more of them out there than yesterday or something? Whatever, more food for tomorrow, the supplies are running low...

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By the time day breaks everyone is clambering outside to stretch and get away from each other. Mud huts have degraded while you slept, but it's probably still repairable. Last of the food is just a couple frogs on sticks and the bad berries, so some hunting is probably in order now. Hopefully it won't rain any time soon again, but knowing your luck it's going to be a common occurrence. Like hell you'll be sharing your hut with everyone else again though.

DAY 3
KOBOLDS: 24
FOOD: Low
MORALE: Okay

[Labor force can be divided between tasks, but efficiency will drop depending on the work.]

[Choose a subject to focus on]
>Food
>Housing
>Exploration
>Tools
>Write-In

>>5061437
>>Housing

>>5061437
>Food
>Housing

>>5061437
>Tools

>>5061437
>Food
Those who saw the predators two days back should be in each hunting/foraging party. We also need to go out too.

>>5061437
>Food
>Housing
The group of kobolds that collected the frogs did a great job at collecting frogs for everyone, we can split half into making more huts to get less crammed at night and probably a bit drier.

>>5061437
>Food
>Housing
Half repair, half forage.

>>5061437
>Food
>Housing

I want my mud mansion god damnit!

>>5061442
>>5061497
>>5061510
>>5061521

You decide to split the Kobolds into two groups. 15 are sent to hunt while 10 including you sit at home and practice your architecture. It's much smoother going today now that everyone has had some practice. Though the mud is slicker today, ash from the previous fires is spread to dry up the ground. The swamp has plenty of material to work with in fibrous plants and thin trees that can be cut with sharpened stones. Some work on repairing the two buildings you already have while others set the framework for 3 more huts with their better supervision.

You personally take the time to manage the improvement of your own. How can the leader live in a run down pile of mud? Some time is spent speaking with Krikyak on the encampment development. "High clay in soil." He says, speaking in short sentences like some weirdo. Last night you're pretty sure he stared at a wall completely unblinking the entire night. "Mud wear down quick. Fired bricks last longer. Need find clay deposit and kiln though."

At the current rate of building the huts will be done by nightfall and you might be able to start the frames some new ones. But they're still just mud, and clay is sturdy. You don't know when rain will fall again either. 5 bold per hut is pretty good spacing right now too, even if you still want your own adobe to yourself, but the utility of some other buildings may come in handy.

>Continue construction on more huts
>Start work on a kiln for the future
>A storage hut would help
>How about a palisade?

Regardless, roll 3d100 for the hunting parties events. Danger reduced due to new knowledge and preparation.

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>5061540
>Start work on a kiln for the future
>A storage hut would help

We haven't explored yet, there might be better ground elsewhere to settle on in this swamp.

Rolled 29, 89, 32 = 150 (3d100)

>>5061540
>Continue construction on more huts
Let's just focus on getting a decent amount of shelter. Useful stuff we find can still be stored in a hut temporarily, since the lot of us cramped into two - it will also help morale for the other 'bolds to get back and see we made a lot of huts.

Like >>5061545 said we might find better ground elsewhere so let's hold off on investing in more complex and I assume work-intensive buildings like a kiln until we explore the swamp some more.

>Palisade
Working on a palisade would be good too, incase we get attacked. Maybe we should aim to get together one more hut and a palisade around the camp, leaving space for a couple more buildings. Once those are built we can think about exploring the swamp more or maybe spending a day making some proper weapons.

>>5061540
>Start work on a kiln for the future
>How about a palisade?

>>5061540
>How about a palisade?

More accurately, stack mud and dig in to make a fairly steep cliff that'll discourage wildlife - that'll let us not worry about a croc coming in for a snack or a snek sneaking through...

Rolled 90, 42, 7 = 139 (3d100)

>>5061540
>Start work on a kiln for the future

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>>5061545
>>5061550
>>5061553
>>5061583
>>5061624

29, 89, 32

While you aren't too certain on the effectiveness of a kiln yet, you're willing to let Krikyak work on the tool himself, he's the only one who seems to know how to properly make one anyways. The rest of the workers are set about finishing up the 3 huts before beginning our newest project, a palisade around the camp. Trenches are dug and mud stacked high in the form of walls with sharpened wood spears driven into them to fend off any wildlife. By nightfall, about a quarter of the wall is done, and It'll likely take another day to fully finish the wall. The ceramicist seems to have finished his kiln, but he says there's still much work to be done with a charcoal pit before it can even be used.

The hunting parties return relatively unmolested. No birds or anything special, just... A lot of frogs. They're not bad, and some of the kobolds seem to quite like them when roasted, but it's just bland to you really. The last party to return though has a story for you. while they were trudging through the marsh at evening time and the mist had almost completely lifted, they saw something. Off in the distance something tall, at least 16 feet tall by estimate. It looked almost transparent like a ghost and stood on four stilted, spiderlike legs. They connected to some bulbous sack of body that hung down. As it walked along an alligator crawled out from a nearby pool. Slowly a tentacle appendage with a needled tip emerged from its body. Like lightning it stabbed into the lizard, and in minutes the creature was left a drained husk of scaled skin laying on the ground. The hunting group was too frightened to even think of checking the corpse before they slunk back to camp, barely caring to look for more food.

The story is horrifying to think about. What if a monster like that comes across the camp? A tiny palisade won't do anything to fend off that thing! What to do... Well, regardless all you can do now is sit at camp and roast some frogs. Maybe some solution will show itself in time? Speaking of frogs, the damn things are so vocal tonight. It's like a thousand of them are out croaking in a concert or something...

By the time daylight hits, everyone is up. People seem to be getting used to the routine of camp, though everyone is a little quieter than usual. Has the story affected them too? The additional houses let everyone rest a little better at least. You take a spitted frog that was sitting outside and chomp on it thinking about what to do next.

DAY 4
KOBOLDS: 24
FOOD: Decent!
MORALE: Okay?...
PROJECTS: Kiln, Palisade

[Choose a subject to focus on]
>Food
>Construction
>Exploration
>Military
>Cultural
>Tools
>Write-In

>>5061656
>Military
Time to drill the bolds. May need to defend ourselves soon. Should make people feel more confident, at least!

>>5061656
>Exploration
Look for a more defensible or fertile place to change camp to, and also just get the general lay of the land.

>>5061656
>Exploration

Frankly this just shows how little we know - we need to find out if there are any other threats nearby or any resources we can exploit.

>>5061656
>Exploration
>Military

>>5061656
>>Military

>>5061656
>Tools
>Cultural

>>5061656

> Exploration
> Military

Better be prepared for the worse and know what we are dealing with here

>>5061656
>Exploration
>Military

>>5061674
>>5061678
>>5061700
>>5061704
>>5061712
>>5061738
>>5061749
>>5061803

There could be other awful things like that lanky monster out there. That's why you're going to need to prepare for them. Half the kobolds are selected and organized into an exploration squad while the rest stay home to prepare weaponry. You choose the most promising looking bold, a young one named Yapyaw, totally not by random and designate them as squad leader to explore the lands of this swamp after waiting long enough to collect some weapons.

In terms of weaponry crafting it's really simple stuff. Fibers are corded and tied into slings, while sturdy sticks are sharpened to spears. Time is taken to find a good quantity of stones and stockpile them in the camp for use. Most humans would scoff at the simple sling. They think it primitive and pathetic. True, it's pretty low tech. In the last nest the most beloved defenders in the warren got crossbows and other metal worked goodies. But one should never underestimate the power of a rock launched at speeds high enough to shatter skulls.

This is why while the others scout about, your half of the kobolds practice with the noble sling, missing a respectable 60% of their shots for most of the day. It might hurt like hell but boy are slings hard to aim. Practice makes perfect anyways, you reassure yourself fashioning a hat out of the wren feathers you kept. Krikyak is covering up a bunch of wood with mud. Says something about charcoal. Weird.

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As Yapyaw you have no idea what you're doing really, but it does feel good to have authority and order people around! You confidently stand with your spear over your shoulder as you wonder which direction to aimlessly wander in. Probably not east, that's the direction everyone came from after all, not much of notice would be there if everyone saw it all coming here right?... The other directions don't look that different from where you are right now. Less trees and plants in the west maybe? Fairly sure that most of the frog croaking has been coming from the south too. You idly kick a bullfrog that attempts to bite your foot as you contemplate. Lots of those things lately... The north is absolutely mundane!

>North
>West
>South
>East

>Slow pace...
>Regular pace
>Speedy pace!

>>5061832

> South
> Regular Pace

Man, we’re gonna find so many fucking frogs

>>5061832
>South
>Regular pace

>>5061832
>South
>>5061832
>>Speedy pace!

>>5061832
>>South
>Regular pace

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>>5061832
>South
>Reg'lar

lookin fer whut the frugs ar gettin up tew, and where they comin from

we came from eggs in the ground, diddn'we?
stands to reason we could find the eggs in the water they came from, maybe they're good eats or maybe we could raise them so's to not have to go looking for them every day

any purty colored frogs or flowers should be grabbed, seems like just the kind of thing to liven up the drab mud everything of the camp

>>5061832
>South
>Regular pace

>>5061862
>South

>>5061832
>South
>Regular pace.

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>>5061862
>>5061865
>>5061874
>>5061880
>>5061901
>>5061905
>>5062020
>>5062032

Southward you march together! It's minutes on end before you reach your first notable landmark. There's a big body of water out here, not too uncommon in a swamp. It's sort of deep though. Now that you look at it, the sides don't really angle into a bowl like most ponds, it just sort of... Drops off into a big, deep hole. Is there a bottom to that thing? Sorta feels unsettling the more you look at it though, kind of like the cold icy grip of death has grasped your heart and is pulling you forward. As if the abyssal depths threaten to yank your soul into the cruel darkness away from the warm sun... Moving on!

There's lots of frogs, though they seem way too small to bother eating. There's like hundreds of them hopping about in the new large stretch of thick brush that you find yourself in. There's a lot of these short stubby bushes that seem to be growing fist sized fruits, but they look really hard and rough. Like rocks? You pick one and look at it, poking it with a nail and... This is just a rock.

Why are plants growing rocks?

Suddenly you hear a rustling in the foliage a distance away. Out emerges a very strange figure. It looks... Vaguely human. It's completely naked except for its body which is wrapped in a ball of uncleaned pelts completely covering it's torso and head. It has a floppy, pointy green hat balanced atop its head pelts too. The arms and legs seem twice as long as they naturally should be and the guy just seems bigger than a regular person should be in general even without the stick limbs. He looks at your direction and stares directly into your eyes. The face is hidden and all you can see are glowing yellow lights where eyes should be and rotten, sharp teeth. He plucks a rock off of a plant and just... Takes a bite out of it like it was the juiciest apple. Just crunching along and letting gravel spill out his mouth while never breaking eye contact.

>Attempt to interact
>Forget this ever happened and keep walking
>KILL

>>5062422
>Attempt to interact
"What do rocks taste like?"

>>5062422
>Forget this ever happened and keep walking

>>5062422

>Attempt to Interact
Make the most Beta Kobold go out and talk to it, that way we don’t lose anyone valuable

>>5062422
>Forget this ever happened and keep walking
Kobold flesh is significantly more pliable than that rock it just ate... if we don't want to become it's next meal I say we avoid it and hope it doesn't pursue.

>>5062422
Maybe its not a rock but a real hard nut?
>>Attempt to interact
Try to do as the stranger does?
Give the rock a chance, carefully?

>>5062451
Supporting this approach.

>>5062422
Casting my vote thusly!

>>5062426
>>5062444
>>5062451
>>5062452
>>5062461
>>5062560

Everyone looks at each other for a moment and then unanimously decides on what to do. Pushing forward some random unlucky sod forward and seeing what will happen! The singled-out bold stares back at the rest of you, betrayed and shivering in fright. As soon as you break the staring contest the lanky man starts laughing. Leaning over in one smooth motion he grabs the frightened kobold by the back of the neck, picks him up, and points at him laughing and looking back and forth between the them and the group. As the confusion thickens, he stands up and jauntily jogs away all the while the kobold screams in terror.

You hear those screams fade into the distance to the north-west as the croaking of frogs slowly overcomes it. Slow rhythmic thumping too? Maybe that's just your heart.

Well that was... That. A kobold picks one of the fruits and bites into it. It is in fact, just a rock, it tastes like granite... Huh???...

>Just keep moving forward
>Pursue lanky guy
>Lets go home...

>>5062565
>Pursue the Lank stealthily, to learn more about this threat

Or maybe ally? Dragons are allies, and they sometimes eat us. Maybe he can be bribed into a cooperative relationship. If not: maybe he can be killed while he sleeps.

>>5062565
>Just keep moving forward
well that was dumb, we are nowhere near equipped to deal with a swamp demon or whatever it is, keep looking around.

>>5062565
>>Lets go home...

>>5062565

> Pursue lanky guy

Although I recommend leaving that Kobold as a sacrifice, I still don’t want to listen to him get wisped away. Let’s follow carefully and see if we can help him.

>>5062565
>Pursue lanky guy

>>5062565
>Pursue lanky guy

>>5062565
>Just keep moving forward

>>5062568
>>5062587
>>5062600
>>5062699
>>5062701
>>5062709

Okay, MAYBE that was a bad idea. But how should you have know he was going to just yoink him away like that?... Well, you should probably chase after the creepy thing. Leader will be so angry if you come home with less people than you started with. So, uh... Forward march to the north-west!

You leave the froggy south and keep on walking, even if the rest of the squad is extremely reluctant and unhappy about it, you're the boss for now. The ground mostly clears of vegetation the more west you go. It's a lot of flatter ground and water pools. Makes it decently easy to follow given the big foot prints left behind. As you keep going you start seeing new stuff. Like mounds of dirt that just keep getting higher and higher. Some of them have pieces of metal embedded in them, most of which have been rusted into uselessness. As you keep following the tracks as they turn west vegetation keeps getting sparser and rusted metal pokes out of the ground and water like reeds. You often have to take roundabout ways to avoid wildlife, and a fog has started to settle down. His pace is so much faster than yours too with how long those legs are.

At a certain point, inexplicably the footprints duplicate and split off in different directions. You've stopped really questioning what this thing is capable of really. The right path seems to lead to more and more rusty wreck, while on the left, the ground seems VERY moist, almost soupy. How long have you been out now, is it mid day or something? Maybe.

>Take the left path! [2d100 bo3]
>Take the right path! [2d100 bo3]
>Go home [No roll]

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Rolled 84, 67 = 151 (2d100)

>>5062743
>Take the right path! [2d100 bo3]

Let's investigate the wreck!

>>5062743

>Take the right path!

I fear that going the other way will cause our Kobolds to drown as they accidentally walk into a river or something and who knows, that thing is probably quite effecient at swimming.

Rolled 63, 10 = 73 (2d100)

>>5062766

Fucked up the dice

>>5062743

>Take the right path! [2d100 bo3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-hand_path_and_right-hand_path#Right-Hand_Path

The Right Hand Path Is The Path Of The Law, How Could We Act Otherwise
(also lets hope to find gubbins, I want robotically enhanced cybolds)

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>>5062768
how do I dice

Rolled 92, 73 = 165 (2d100)

>>5062743
>right path

>>5062771

You put “dice+2d100” in the options without quotation marks.

>>5062743
>Take the right path

Rolled 85, 28 = 113 (2d100)

>>5062770
Nat 200

Rolled 69, 60 = 129 (2d100)

>>5062833
ty
>right path

>>5062757
>>5062766
>>5062768
>>5062770
>>5062783
>>5062912

92,73

Water is awful, and you hate it. Metal is cool though, so you take the right path. Ground here seems slightly dryer. Also warmer for some reason? Sort of nice. Slight hills and valleys are showing up and the metal seems slightly less rusted? Birds are using them to make nests which is strange. Less wildlife too, and the ones that do appear are odd looking. There was a wren that had two heads, though the other one hung limply.

It's several minutes of wandering until the evening has started to set. In the distance you find what you were looking for. Standing tall among the mud pillars is a wooden pole, carved with cartoonish figures of swamp fauna and flora. You see your kidnapped kobold tied to the pole at the top, though he seems dazed and out of it... There's empty bottles at the bottom, is he drunk? But none of that stands out as much as the lanky freak sitting perched at the top, giggling like mad at the top. He points at you and laughs before tearing off pelts from his rotted fur covering and tossing them to the ground before you. From an unknowable location he pulls out a tiny fiddle and begins stringing at it like mad.

The piles of rotted fur jiggle and bounce, forming themselves into crude puppets of pelt and bone in the shape of some kind of dog. They howl with nonexistent vocal chords, jerkily bounding towards your stunned group with their pack of five.

COMBAT
[5d100 for the combat round]

>Spears out!
>Sling volley
>Write-in

>>5063126
>Sling Volley
Spears stabbing through bare bones wont hurt much but rocks cracking them will

>>5063126
Okay that guys dead time to get the fuck out
>We should all run away as fast as we can

>>5063126
>Sling volley
if the battle starts taking a turn for the worst, we bolt

>>5063126
>Sling volley

>>5063126
>>Sling volley
Slings out boys!

Rolled 87, 72, 13, 21, 16 = 209 (5d100)

>>5063126

>Sling Volley
If possible have some Kobolds in the front with spears so they can protect the slingers against any advancing enemies.

Rolled 58, 12, 81, 23, 19 = 193 (5d100)

>>5063126

Rolled 4, 23, 95, 36, 88 = 246 (5d100)

>>5063126
>Sling Volley

Rolled 61, 19, 57, 34, 59 = 230 (5d100)

>>5063126
Sling volley

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>>5063153
>>5063167
>>5063169
>>5063191
>>5063200
>>5063207
>>5063270
>>5063303


4, 23, 95, 36, 88

"ROCKS, THROW ROCKS!" You shout as you immediately take the clever decision to start backing up and spinning a rock in your corded sling. Obviously, all the events of the day have made everyone nervous, and this is just one of those breaking points. Accuracy is minimal, and it's by a miracle that even one of them clatters to the ground in a furred heap after it gets its skull shattered. It surprises you how much fur can pad against blunt force trauma honestly. They're simply too fast for you to reload another round of rocks before they're upon you, and you find yourself viewing a bone hound in slow motion with its jaws open about to chew your face off. It's at this time that you enact a move of utter tactical genius and skill of a true leader.

By which you mean you grab the kobold right next to you and push him in the way.

While you're both screaming, you take the opportunity to start whaling on the dog with your loaded sling, smacking it over and over with the rock while it's busy chewing up the less fortunate bold. The other kobolds are doing much of the same. It is a feverish frenzy of rocks and teeth and kobold and construct flail about in a sea of violence to the backdrop of discordant, high pitched fiddle music. It's the type of insanity that one can never really prepare for. Somehow, some way, after who knows how long of fighting, you emerge victorious. The shield you used? most certainly dead along with another. No one seems to have escaped without scratches except you, and it's by sheer numbers advantage that you won. How lucky.

The lanky man stops his fiddling and starts clapping and hollering at your group. He pulls at a rope ribbon and the kobold tied to the pole drops to the ground dazed and confused. He leaps from the totem and lands a few feet in front of you. Like lightning he pulls out three tiny chests out from the floppy pointed hat on his head and slaps them down on the ground grinning like mad and staring you in the eyes with those yellow pinpricks of light.

They each have a little piece of paper with a drawing on them. One, a short girl with a wide brim hat, surrounded by frogs. The middle has what you assume is the lanky man preforming an esoteric interpretative dance. The last is a man in an overcoat, his face concealed by scarves and a pointed hat with a massive feather in it.

>Frog lady
>Him
>Plant fella
>Attack the freak!

>>5063388
>Frog lady

Fuck it, lets go for the chick.

>>5063388
>Frog lady
Frogs are food, and we could use more of that. She seems least threatening, too. Had enough threatening for one night.

>>5063388
>Frog lady

Presumably a witch? Kinda feel like this guy might be a demon or something...frankly pretty cool guy tho to give us a boon for not-dying.

Also that's us down to 22 kobolds. We REALLY need to stop dying...suggestion that we bunker up at home for a turn or two (or more), make some progress on settling in and prepare some gear for our expeditions (shields, spears, baskets, nets / traps) so we can gather more food, defend against threats and all that without losing 8% of our population in a fight? Luckily for us, being lizard-people we might spawn from eggs which'd let us really min-max population growth and hopefully bounce back quickly...

>>5063388
>Frog lady
Frogs are like the only nondangerous thing we've met so far

>>5063388
>Frog lady

>>5063388

> Frog Lady

Hey QM, do we know if other Kobolds from warren survived and might be wandering the swamp too, and if so could we search for them?

>>5063415

Yeah our population is dwindling pretty badly, hence my question towards the QM, after we get some better equipment it might be worth looking for our Kobold brethren in the swamp, depending on how long it will take to raise children.

>>5063388
>>Frog lady

>>5063396
>>5063410
>>5063415
>>5063418
>>5063443
>>5063628
>>5063459
It's very possible that other groups of kobolds have wandered in this direction after the nest collapse. For kobold birth rates, a pregnant lady kobold lays around 1-5 eggs after a few days however it will take a month or two for them to mature into a juvenile. The ratio of male to female kobolds is about 1:4 as well.
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You tentatively walk forward and on a whim, pick up the one with the frogs on it. For the first time since you've seen him, the lanky man frowns, and then... He spits in your face. Why did that make him upset out of everything that happened? The other boxes are quickly snatched up as he sprints away leaving you with the chest you selected.

What an awful day. This whole mission has left you with a net loss of two kobolds and many injuries. You open up the box, hoping whatever is inside will make this trip worth it, and... Oh?... Wrapped in exceptionally soft velvet is a singular, large egg. The shell is rough and black with spiderwebbed veins of green. You place a hand on it and feel the warmth of it. It has to be...

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Military training goes on and on. Eventually training switches from slinging rocks to practicing spear formations and jabs against piles of mud. It's boring, but important that they all understand what to do in a fight instead of running around like chickens with their heads cut off. A short break is taken and some are directed in piling mud on wood for some charcoal pits.

It's in the night when the expedition finally returns. Initially you're livid that you lost two bolds and have to worry about the wounded getting infections, but they've brought back something quite special. An egg that by all accounts, seems to be a dragons egg. The warmth gives you such hope for the future... Sure some might say that being ruled by some draconic brat is an incredible downgrade, but serving others is natural for kobolds. We usually hate it if it's some big monster like an ogre or an orc warlord, but something in our genetics just makes us happy to be around dragons. Must be the will of Tiamat. The egg is stuffed into your hut and covered in warm plants for safekeeping.

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Sunrise is met with hope for you. The expedition kobolds are still sore from last night, but there's still work to be done. Perhaps something else to get done besides exploration? Still learned a lot from that trip. The hells is wrong with that lanky thing?

>Landmarks discovered: The water pit, Stone fruits, Metal marshes

DAY 5
KOBOLDS: 22
FOOD: Low
MORALE: Okay.
PROJECTS: [Palisade 1/5]

[Choose a subject to focus on]
>Food
>Construction
>Exploration
>Military
>Cultural
>Tools
>Write-In

>>5063690
>Tools
>Kiln

>>5063690
>Tools
>Food

>>5063690
>Tools
>Food

>>5063690
>tools
>kiln
Is there any peat in this swamp by any chance???

>>5063732
>>5063756
>>5063810
>>5063834

Half the camp is tired and cut up from yesterday, so they aren't as motivated to work as hard. Soreness with the other half from training all day as well. Today will be one of rest and improvement in terms of our tools. The charcoal pits finished burning yesterday, so we do have fuel to run the apparent kiln that was built recently. You pat the egg before going outside to organize daily events.

From the previous expedition and the descriptions given of the area, Krikyak determines that there must be good clay in that watery pit from the coloration of soil. This can be used to create some real nice ceramics and other goodies but we need to actual cart the stuff to the camp. On the other hand there might also be some salvageable metals to the west if it all hasn't rusted to scrap yet. Another kobold says he thinks that the trees get a lot thicker up to the north, but we haven't actually explored up there yet.

>Start harvesting high quality clay from the pit
>Try scavenging metal from the marshes
>See if good wood can be found in the north
>Focus on basic tools and maintenance


A lot of the kobolds grumble at the thought of going out hunting. Must be the strain put on them over the days or the complacency of sitting in the camp. Could always try to find a more stable form of food gathering. Then again telling them to shut it and get to work is always a perfectly acceptable option.

>Maybe try fishing?
>Let's make traps
>Force them to go out hunting
>write-in

>>5063979
Can the kiln be used as a forge? If so then
>Start harvesting high quality clay from the pit
if not then
>See if good wood can be found in the north
and
>Maybe try fishing?

With clay and a kiln we can presumably start to build sturdier houses as well as have the gear necessary to forge basic metal weapons, or if we can't forge with the kiln then we can still build some decent defenses and structures with the good wood.

>>5063979
>Start harvesting high quality clay from the pit
>See if good wood can be found in the north

>Maybe try fishing?
>Let's make traps

>>5063979
>Focus on basic tools and maintenance

>Let's make traps

>>5063979
>Start harvesting high quality clay from the pit

We need clay to build good structures. Solid walls, tile roofs, pottery - even metalworking - it all depends on clay. Good wood is similarly useful but give we lack a great carpenter or tools to really manipulate it quickly / well, clay is probably more useful short-term.

>Let's make traps

Traps are good, they'll let us reduce our labour cost for food and when we have kids they can be sent to check them letting adults focus on important stuff.

>>5064045
Supporting!

>>5063979
>Clay
>Traps

>>5063985
+1

>>5063979
>Start harvesting high quality clay from the pit
>Maybe try fishing?

>>5063979
>>Try scavenging metal from the marshes

If we want to use the kiln, we need charcoal. If we want charcoal, we need wood. If we want wood, we need to chop down trees. If we want to chop down trees, we need axes. Better scrap metal than stone.

(Thanksgivings forces me away from the PC. Expect potential mistakes from phone posting)

It’s settled that clay is to be harvested from the hole for making tools. Reed baskets are made to ferry the clay back and forth as well as make traps. Hopefully they can ease the burden of labor to keep the camp fed. Traps are the specialty of kobolds after all. You would be surprised how much you can do with some rope.

As the clay comes in, pottery and other useful bits are formed and prepared to fire. A backlog of unfired ceramics is quickly created and extra work is put in to expand the kilns. About a day of up time and you’ll soon have well filled your need for ceramic goods.

After a good deal of clay is harvested and stockpiled a break is taken. Most kobolds report feeling uneasy near the hole and don’t want to be near it for some reason. One reports seeing a giant frog in the distance but no one else does. Probably a liar.

Traps are set and only a small amount of game is caught due to set up time. Food consumptIon has been slightly slowed for today. One kobold e we as sent off to the north far enough to confirm that there are more trees of a higher quality up there. Ground seems slightly less damp too?

Overall it was a decent day. Spirits don’t seem to improve for some reason though, even lessening. The wounded still gripe of hurt and even others still find ways to complain. Being sick of frogs, cramped huts, it’s too cold, etc…

DAY 6
KOBOLDS: 22
FOOD: Low
MORALE: Bad
PROJECTS: [Palisade 1/5]

[Choose a subject to focus on]
>Food
>Construction
>Exploration
>Military
>Cultural
>Tools
>Write-In

>>5064376
>Scavenge metal
>Build clay huts, kiln

Why aren't we moving north to the trees? We could burrow there.

>>5064376
>Construction
>Build clay huts or reinforce the existing mudhuts with clay.
>Cultural
>Hold a tribe meeting to discuss the current state of the tribe, future plans and suggestions and concerns. Snirt cares about you, really!

>>5064376
>Construction; build more huts
>Cultural; establish a breeding hierarchy

We need meat shield replacements.

>>5064376

> Exploration
Search for Kobolds in the surrounding area that survived the destruction of our Warren.

> Cultural
As >>5064409 says

I’m thinking we should prioritise finding surviving Kobolds because the longer we wait, the less likely we are to find living ones. Besides, trying to grow our population from eggs will take around a month, and we’ll probably all be dead by then in addition to the fact that at that point we’ll only have juveniles. That’s just my two-cents though, so vote what you will.

>>5064398
>Support

>>5064376
>>5064392 +1

>>5064376
>>Construction
>Food
Let's try out fishing.

>>5064398
Support! Also, at least discus a breeding hierarchy.

>>5064376
Let's do it up.

>>5064409
>Support

Given how much spirits have fallen it may be best to work on the important cultural and recreational aspects of kobold society. Orders are given to construct some clay huts in the meantime to slowly replace our weak mud ones. If good time is made, one or two more huts can be made. The privacy will be appreciated.

You take the time to ask around for what the others desire. With the mood so low and the population dwindling, you do have fears that the others wont… Be able to get in the mood. Some joy in their lives might help with that. One asks for booze which we obviously cant manage. A feast may work though, but you would have to hunt down a beast like an alligator to make it mean something. Maybe there good stuff in that forest? Several mention a place of worship. That could be arranged, an altar to one of the patrons may be beneficial. Gods can be fickle at times but powerful. Theres a scant few that talk of how drab the place is. Decoration and trinkets might appease them, Kobolds are naturally and like to horde things for themselves. Clay does lend itself well to paint if you could find the dye.

>dedicate an altar to-
>>Tiamat, God of dragons
>>Krish’gah, Patron of kobolds
>>Baphome- wait what?

>organize for feast
>>Hunting a notable beast of the swamp
>>Search the tree grove for foods
>>Making due with a variety of foods and experimentation

>Spend time improving the aesthetics of the camp and making trinkets

>>5064872
>dedicate an altar to-
>>Tiamat, God of dragons
>>Krish’gah, Patron of kobolds
>>Baphome- wait what?

>organize for feast
>>Hunting a notable beast of the swamp

Hunt alligator, create a shrine to all the gods listed above.

>>5064872
>dedicate an altar to-
>>Baphome- wait what?

>organize for feast
Time for a gator hunt.

>>5064872

>dedicate an altar to-
>>Baphome- wait what?

>Organise a Feast
>> Hunting a notable beast of the swamp

>>5064872
>>5064872
Bahopmet

Great Beast

>>5064872
>Tiamat, God of dragons
We have a dragon egg, after all!

>Hunting a notable beast of the swamp

>>5064872
>Baphome- wait what?
I mean he's also a dragon god
>Hunting a notable beast of the swamp
But let's come up with a plan and some traps

>>5064872
>>Baphome- wait what?

>>Hunting a notable beast of the swamp
Scavenge metal for spearheads.

>>5064872
Adding the spearhead idea from >>5065007
to >>5064982

>>5064872
>>Krish’gah, Patron of kobolds
>>Search the tree grove for foods

>dedicate an altar to-
>Krish’gah, Patron of kobolds

>organize for feast
>>Hunting a notable beast of the swamp

Tiamat is an angry bitch, and Baphomet is hahahaha no level.

i dont know dnd or whatever setting this is lore, but just based on the choice baphomet seems bad. just how big of a mistake is picking him? also you guys have been pretty reckless with our bolds, it would be fine if we had even just a 100, but we got less than 25 at the start, and you keep making them sacrifice to demons and then chase down the demon and then fight the demon and all that shit, maybe chill until we get at least 50 bolds and a steady birth rate before doing wild shit.

>>5064872
>>Baphome- wait what?

Why are people wanting Baphomet? Actual question.

>>5065029
They're both dragon gods

Tiamat = evil bitch but will probably favour us just enough to ensure the safety of our dragon egg

Baphomet = Stick up his ass good god but is a lot less likely to demand blood sacrifice or fuck us over when board

>>5065034
We're kobolds we serve the biggest and the baddest around. We don't question, morals, or even whether it's a good idea or not. I'm sure it'll turn out fine anyways, probably.

>>5065038
Oh okay, I had imagined it would be the reverse, based on the names. Thanks anon.

>>5065038
...Are you thinking of BAHAMUT?

BAPHOMET is a Prime Evil. Literally Satan in some depicitions.

>>5065042
Oh. Why the fuck is everyone voting for Satan and not a dragon or kobold god?

>>5065045
That's what I'm asking. But if >>5065038 is a trend, some people might've legit confused the two names.

>>5065038
Hahaha, oh man. Oh shit. Did our poor little bolds just ACCIDENTALLY sell their souls to Satan?

I will say that the setting isn't exactly D&D, but yes that last option does happen to be the funny goat man, and no he is not generally worshipped by kobolds

>>5064872
>Krish'gah, patron of kobolds
fuck the other two, lets set ourselves up as the strongest and invert the power pyramid, make us the masters of dragons for a change

let us consecrate the egg to the kobold god, maybe that'll make it more compliant when it is born

>>5064872
Switching to
>>Krish’gah, Patron of kobolds
>>Hunting a notable beast of the swamp
>>5064894

>>5064872
>>>Baphome- wait what?
>>Search the tree grove for foods

>>5064872
>Krish’gah, Patron of kobolds
>Search the tree grove for foods

>>5064872

>Krishgah
vote "doesn't see our race as snacks"

> making due with experimentation
lots of desperation foods become cultural centerpieces later on during prosperity, lets develop a few now, maybe frog caviar on bitter swamp herbs?

>>5065103
>>5065220
sorry about doubleposting, thought 1st hadn't gone through

>>5064872
>>Krish’gah, Patron of kobolds
Like me 'bolds, 'te me frogs, 'ate other gods. Simple as.

>>Search the tree grove for foods

One thing we might consider, since we've got pottery now, is we can make soups. Soups are an easy way to make pleasant food with basic materials - although our dislike of consuming plants as a species would probably cause issues there since we can't use vegetables to bulk it / enhance it, we'd effectively be making Bovril / meat-drink. Also regarding the point of alcohol, those berries that give you the shits might be a possible source - worth checking out if nothing else what they mulch and ferment into. Worst comes to worst, we've gotten a source of deadly deadly poison...

>Spend time improving the aesthetics of the camp and making trinkets

Regarding future morale - What we could do is build up a reserve of food and give everyone a day off. It'd only really work if they've stuff they can do to relax but days off are always popular.

>>5064872
>>>Baphome- wait what?
>>organize for feast
>>>Hunting a notable beast of the swamp

>>5064872
>>Baphome- wait what?
Hue
>Hunting a notable beast of the swamp
Do Goats live in Swamps?

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>>5064881
>>5064925
>>5064894
>>5064969
>>5064982
>>5064983
>>5065007
>>5065011
>>5065017
>>5065025
>>5065033
>>5065173
>>5065183
>>5065220
>>5065345
>>5065365
>>5065713

A good feast would do well to improve the mood. An alligator or something like that would be perfect. You order the kobolds out to hunt one on the idea that they would get the rest of the day off after they bagged something significant. As you wander about the camp you think that some faith would do well to help. Which god to make an altar to first though-

There's a spot outside the camp you should go. It's a deep hole in the earth choked with water. Four others are ordered to come with you, bringing sturdy ropes. As you walk into the shallow waters, the mud sucking your feet in you know where to go. This spot right here, your claws start to shovel out earth and the others must join in. Eventually you find it, smooth black stone immaculate in its creation though marred by filthy soil. The other whisper in fright at its sight, but you order them to bind the stone and drag it back to home. When sat up in its proper location and wiped of grime, it reveals itself in terrible splendor. A six sided rod of polished black stone engraved with the iconography of an ominous bestial goat man preforming great feats of debauchery, hedonism, lust and violence in six terrible acts.

The hunters eventually come back with their grisly prizes. Two alligators. As it was reported, they had surrounded a pool, viciously pelting the beasts with stones and keeping them back with sharpened spears for a long time until the great lizards finally succumbed. The meat will be quite tender.

You have them wait till midnight for the ceremony. Torches are lit and put about as the carcasses are set upon slats of wood. You take and another take stone knives, ritualistically carving them open and removing the vital organs to be put into fine jars and set by the altar. The precious blood is drained as well, saved for later use. The others watch in nervous glances until the meat is sliced off, set to cook, letting the smell of cooking flesh flow through the camp.

Before anyone is allowed to eat, blood is mixed with thickening material and painted upon the bodies of every kobold in celebratory ceremony. After preparation is done we ravenously descend upon the food. The meat is delicious and dripping with juice, the blood is drank and tastes like fine wine. Songs are sang as we dance in the fire light, reveling in the end and beginning of life. The skins of those we felled are hoisted upon sticks and paraded about while others join together mirthfully.

Joyous. Bloody. Carnal.

>>5065834
When you come to, your mouth tastes stained with iron and a female is draped over you still asleep. You walk from your hut to see the mess made last night and the state of the others in a similar manner. You stare at the pillar and wonder just what you truly did yesterday and what the implications of your actions are...

[Organs will now be harvested and brought in urns to the Altar of Baphomet. Acts of... "Faith" can be preformed with them.]

DAY 7
KOBOLDS: 22
FOOD: Okay
MORALE: Fantastic
PROJECTS: [Palisade 1/5]

[Choose a subject to focus on]
>Food
>Construction
>Exploration
>Military
>Cultural
>Tools
>Write-In

>>5065840
>Construction

Let's get our palisade set up so we're safe in here - especially if we're going to be worshipping the Big Evil - then we can look at other things. Specifically I'd like to work out how to get our population growth up. Easiest routes I can think of are increasing security and food supply, decreasing workload and keeping morale high as hell. Also constructing more huts.

>>5065840
Oh. Baphomet. Not Bahamut. Cool. Yeah nah. Fuck this. We all thought we were going to worship the other dragon god, not the devil.

>>5065847
Honestly, I figured that the different spelling, double take in the actual option, and other anons actually having that very realization in the replies would be enough of an indication.

>>5065847
Did you miss >>5065042, >>5065045, >>5065056 and >>5065083? This was a semi-known fact - even if it seemed like some voters didn't actually know / realise what they were voting for.

>>5065840
>>Construction
Finishing the Palisade will be nice.

>>5065850
You think too highly of anons, and I don't mean that as a cheap insult.

Rule 2 of QMing- players will always pick the trap option. Don't put one in unless you legit want them to.

>>5065858
To clarify: don't put in a trap option even when it's obviously a trap. Anons, as a whole, tend to lack the ability to utilize context clues.

>>5065840
REEEE BLOODY CIVIL WAR AGAINST THE FALSE GOD
YIPYAW THE TRUE PROPHET WILL TEAR DOWN THE FALSE IDOL AND ITS PROPHET, AND RESTORE KRISH'GAH TO HIS RIGHTFUL PLACE

>>5065862
I wouldn't exactly call it a trap option to be fair, I'm not cruel enough to put a flat out bad end option in so soon. Other altars can be built just as easily later on if wanted. This is just one of the paths that can be chosen and has its fair few benefits.

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>>5065847
based retard who started worshipping satan out of pure stupidity.

>>5065840
>Construction
Palisades and more huts
>Exploration
Send those not need for construction to go hunt for metal

>>5065850
>>5065847
>>5065858

I don’t really see the problem personally. Demonic Kobolds worshipping dark gods in the swamp seems pretty cool, besides, think about all the possible boons we could get from our new benefactor.

>>5065840

>Construction
Continue to build the Palisade

>Exploration
Search for Kobolds from our old warren who may still be alive in the swamp

>>5065910
Eh, one of the issues I forsee is this kinda prevents us from ever doing diplo with most races / societies since we're worshipping the evil god of evil. We were going to struggle before but with the Kobold Patron or Draconic god, we wouldn't be entering negotiations as "followers of absolute evil" - you know? Similarly, this'll attract the enemies of this god to attack us.

On the other hand, organs for godly boons is fairly easy for us to do and shouldn't cause many issues besides slightly reducing our calorific intake from hunts. Though this depends on what the boons are really.


Also I would've preferred the Patron of Kobolds because that is cuter / might lead to a more functional society in my opinion.

>>5065840
>Construction
Finish Palisade
>Cultural
More Based Bahpomet worship

I don't know what's everyone's complaining about we get to be based devil worshipping swamp kobolds

>>5065840
>Construction

Palisade and a breeding hut!

>>5065840
>Construction palisade

>>5065916

Yeah didn’t really take diplomacy into consideration but I doubt we’ll find many “good” societies out so hopefully it doesn’t bone us that badly.

I do respect some cute kobolds though, perhaps they don’t have to be mutually exclusive and we can have cute bolds that harvest the organs of their enemies for demonic blessings

>>5066036
Mm, that I can agree with. Frankly, I don't imagine we'll have great luck with diplomacy either but that is why we must clearly learn to make this swamp a fortress and our Kobolds deadly. Kobold Roman-Vietcong mix when?

>>5065840
>Military
Train
>Cultural
Get the other alters up and running, I'm want to make this Pantheon the triad of evil!

Taking a step back to really take stock of the situation, you grab a cup to get a drink, promptly spit it out when you realize it's blood, then get some water. Every kobold slowly gets to work setting the camp back in order. The Palisade is the main project of the day since a defensive perimeter you don't have to watch as much is very useful. As everyone gets to it, you discover that somehow, all the females got pregnant last night and now there's about 12 eggs all piled up in one of the huts. No one really knows who's the father of any of them, last night was really wild... Population bonus is nice though?

The clouds seem to darken and rain might fall soon again, so clay is packed on top of the walls to waterproof them. You want room to grow within the walls, so if you really push it you can get them done within the day. The kobolds seem happier today so they're putting in extra effort at least. The traps can be easily harvested and we're getting better at knowing how to use them in this different environment, an alright haul pads the food stock out at an even level. Others have talked about looking for new types of food to spice things up.

While thinking about the eggs and how you might need to make a new building for them, a kobold tells you he thinks he saw a smoke cloud coming from the east while checking traps. Fires don't really happen naturally in a swamp so that must be other people in this swamp. It could be kobolds if you're lucky, but it could also be some humans or others who would gut you on sight.

Another comes at you with something astonishing. In his hand he holds a fat toad of decent size. The aggressive and annoyed creature is quite something. Its skin is the color of gold and shimmers like it's made of the metallic substance. On its head is a little crown like growth as well! Never seen anything like it...

[Expedition has time in the day for two targets]
>Investigate smoke stacks
>Explore the forest
>Scavenge in the metal fields
>Look further south

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>Keep the toad as a pet of status
>Sacrifice the toad
>Eat the rare delicacy
>Let the creature go

>>5066499
>Investigate the smokestacks
>Keep the toad

>>5066499
>Scavenge in the metal fields
>Keep the toad as a pet of status
King Toad

>>5066499
>Investigate smoke stacks
>Keep the toad as a pet of status

>>5066499
>Try to gesture that if they give us back the prisoners, we will leave.
>Scavenge in the metal fields

>Keep the toad as a pet of status

Feed the toad something it'll like.

So lads, after we get Palisade fixed up, what next? We try an make this ground more solid, or try for better ground? I don't mind living in the swamp, I just want to make sure that anything heavier or more sturdy than a hut won't sink into the swamp or collapse around us. I want to create a castle god damnit, or at least a keep with decent walls!

>>5066499

>Investigate Smoke Stacks

>Keep the Toad

>>5066548

Personally I don’t mind too much. Maybe we should look for better settlement location first and then decide if it’s worth moving or staying here. If we do stay I’m all for building a castle as long as the ground is stable.

>>5066548
if we want to make heavier structures, the answer isn't (just) adding dirt to the ground. Pilings like in venice or amsterdam underneath the heavy structures would work tho. maybe we make a canal system and go plutocratic path?

>>5066499
>Investigate smoke stacks
>Keep the toad as a pet of status
>You heard a story as a youngling about a toad who was really a prince, which when kissed by a princess turned hooman and rewarded the princess with her own kingdom. While we don't have anything near a princess, one of the females will do. Get one of the females to kiss the toad and see what happens.

Captcha:T0YS4

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>>5066503
>>5066517
>>5066532
>>5066548
>>5066708
>>5066729

It's such a nice looking thing this toad. Truly a perfect start to your treasure hoard. It's placed in a small enclosure with a puddle of water where it constantly tries to escape.

You send a little scout group off to investigate the smoke and supervise the construction of the palisade. Would be a fine day if not for the dark skies and clammy temperatures. Decently relaxing enough and good time is made. By the time evening comes all the work is finished up and you've got a decent defensive wall. Even put in a gate of wooden spikes to raise and lower.

When the scouting team does come back they've got a very nice surprise. A band of kobolds from the same nest who happened to wander on over in your same direction. They're more or less just as ragged as you were when you started, but the 16 of them really do well to pad your numbers. They've got some interesting information as well. Apparently a far off human settlement to the east they stole food from is sending an expedition to settle somewhere in the swamp. At the rate they're moving they might arrive in... Around a week or two? Give or take. Still, extra numbers means more dwellings to make. Such a pain...

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When you come to in the morning, the skies are pouring down with rain. Normally you might consider keeping everyone inside to wait it out, but with no end in sight and this being the start of the day you've got no choice but to tough it out.

DAY 8
KOBOLDS: 38
FOOD: Low
MORALE: Doin' fine

[Choose a subject to focus on]
>Food
>Construction
>Exploration
>Military
>Cultural
>Tools
>Write-In

>>5066801
>Food
>Cultural

Create another shrine, and sacrifice another alligator to either another patron god or the devil.

>>5066801
>Food
>Military
Train troops with hunting exercises.

>>5066801
>Food
>Cultural
Krish'gah altar with sacrifice of alligators (ideally more than 2 to one up the last event)
dedicate egg to service of Krish'gah so that God has a vested interest in it turning out beneficially for us.
Noobs should focus on throwing rocks, they can get scrap for equipment tomorrow, and housing being cramped shouldn't be an immediate problem if the events from last celebration is anything to go by.

>>5066801
>Construction
Build traps to kill humans, we're fucking kobolds, come on now.
>Food
Hunt shit, if we catch anything big, sacrifice.

>>5066801
>Food
>Cultural

Built two more alters, sacrifice one alligator for each. Simple as.

>>5066824
>kill

Hey, I want a couple slaves to help out with the labor, and imagine what goodies we'll get if we were to sacrifice a couple humans. We should definitely begin raids on the surrounding settlements.

>>5066824
Sensible combo.

>>5066801
Supporting
>Food
>Construction [traps]

>>5066801
>>5066824 +1

>>5066801
>Food
>Cultural

>>5066824
>wanting to build traps in the rain

Maybe after we explore the East mate, but we don’t have to worry about the humans tonight.

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Quick low effort doodle of lanky man and here is his theme

https://open.spotify.com/track/3yuVxaWKEl9rl9O1Ukb6Nr

>>5067021
Wait forgot fuck Spotify
https://youtu.be/8IsHkrRfaeg

>>5066824
Support

>>5066824
+1

>>5067021
nice art anon

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>>5067021
very nice
>>5066806
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>>5066824
>>5066829
>>5066845
>>5066868
>>5066903
>>5067028
>>5067082

The rain can't be helped, though there are some tasks that can be done indoors for the moment. Kobolds don't like humans, that's a very well known thing. And the fact that they are going to be encroaching on your swamp? Well you take offense to that. Time to really get going with making traps. It's not easy in the intellectual sense, even for kobolds given the open nature of a swamp. It's mostly sharpening spears and making tools for trap kits that'll be easy to deploy out in the field. Most anti-humanoid traps aren't going to be particularly effective at catching animals given how they're different purposes and all.

While everyone is whittling away there gets to be talk about alternative food sources that aren't frogs again. One says something about a fish farm using the weird fat eel things that live in the murky pools about the swamp. They're decent enough, but it's annoying trying to spot them in the cloudy water and there's no telling if there'll be any in a particular pool. A farm would solve those issues, though you're not very knowledgeable in that field. It would take a lot of effort too considering the digging, irrigation, and construction needed.

If you felt like the trek, you might be able to find some fruit trees (as much as you hate the stuff yourself) or less dangerous and meaty game. Spices are in forests too, right? In the old warren you're pretty sure you remember that there was a mushroom farm as well. Do mushrooms grow above ground? Swamps are probably good enough for them to grow in, you think you saw a few around as well, though no one was brave enough to eat some. Mushrooms are the meat of vegetables anyways...

The rain goes on as the hunting party goes out, and they spot something that one might consider concerning. There's frogs to the south near the camp. Big frogs. Like fat cow sized and having the temperament of bullfrogs. And to vouch for how dangerous they might be, one snatched a bird out of the sky with its tongue like a fly. Oh dear... They're still far enough from the camp that they're just lazing about the water pit, but they might move closer eventually.

>Begin planning of a fish farm
>Consider the logistics of mushroom farming
>Scout the forest for alternative foods

>>5067122
>Begin planning of a fish farm